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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Second Language Writing is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Past JSLW Editor Rosa M. Manchón speaks: Ilona Leki & Tony Silva’s invitation to co-edit the journal—my reflection	114
Editorial	98
Expertise in L2 writing instruction: The road less travelled	55
Book Review	44
Influence of a perspective oriented task, executive function, and trait perspective taking on EFL Writing	41
Generative artificial intelligence and second language writing	39
Generative AI: Same same but different?	39
Book review	38
Book Review	36
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	33
Book review	33
The effects of incorporating mindset intervention in L2 English writing on Chinese college EFL students’ learning engagement and writing performance	29
From the other side of the desk: Supervisors’ perceptions of supervisory feedback	28
Is corrective feedback during telecollaboration beneficial? The effects of peer and teacher corrections on L2 writing proficiency	28
Grammatical complexity: Insights from English for academic purposes teachers	28
Introduction to the special issue: Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as a lens for looking backward, outward, and forward in Second Language Writing	27
Editorial Board	26
Editorial Board	24
The gold standard for the teaching profession: A rejoinder	22
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	22
Critical language awareness and English for Research Publication Purposes	19
Book review	19
CLA and WPA: A justice-oriented approach to writing program administration	18
Editorial Board	18
Editorial Board	14

Revisiting the conceptualizations of feedback in second language writing: a metaphor analysis approach	14
Syntactic and lexical features of adolescent L2 students’ academic writing	13
Language quality, content, structure: What analytic ratings tell us about EFL writing skills at upper secondary school level in Germany and Switzerland	13
Connecting source use and argumentation in L2 integrated argumentative writing performance	12
Task evolution in English for Academic Purposes writing materials: The case of “Information Transfer” to “Critical Commentary”	12
AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments	12
Editorial Board	11
Book review	11
Book Review	11
Book review	11
Getting a grip on the writing process: (Effective) approaches to write argumentative and narrative texts in L1 and L2	11
JSLW editorial for March 2025	11
An argument for globalized L2 writing methodological innovation	10
Teachers’ conceptualizations of digital multimodal composing in L2 writing	10
Graduate students’ use of ChatGPT for academic text revision: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement	10
Tunnel, teapot, mermaid, ghost: Creative-critical practice as critical language awareness	10
To grade is not to grade?: Exploring ungrading in the teaching of L2 writing	10
Transpacific telecollaboration and L2 writing: Influences of interpersonal dynamics on peer feedback and revision uptake	10
“It can be a very equalizing way to grade”: Contract grading and multilingual writers	10
Book review	9
Translanguaging with generative AI in EFL writing: Students’ practices and perceptions	9
Book review	9
Editorial Board	9
Book Review	9
Developing and evaluating an empirically-based diagnostic checklist for assessing second language integrated writing	8
Understanding the impact of teacher feedback on EFL students’ use of self-regulated writing strategies	8
Elements of doctoral apprenticeship: Community feedback and the acquisition of writing expertise	8
Ungrading as an assessment philosophy: Reliability, validity, and practicality	7
The need for critical digital literacies in generative AI-mediated L2 writing	7
Editors introduction	7
Research trends in L2 written corrective feedback: A bibliometric analysis of three decades of Scopus-indexed research on L2 WCF	7
Developing L2 writing abilities through an instructional enrichment program informed by dynamic assessment	6
Second-language writing development of adult immigrants following three study paths reflecting their varying levels of prior education	6
Introduction to JSLW’s 30th anniversary special issue	6
Voices from L2 learners across different languages: Development and validation of a student writing assessment literacy scale	6
Editorial Board	6
Book review	6
The effects of completing collaborative or independent writing on the development of language use in individual writing	6
JSLW@30: The founders & past editors speak	6
The affordances and contradictions of AI-generated text for writers of english as a second or foreign language	6
The role of communicative purpose in describing and interpreting lexico-grammatical variation in L2 writing	6
Book Review	6
A large-scale longitudinal study of syntactic complexity development in EFL writing: A mixed-effects model approach	6
Book Review	6
A measure of EFL argumentative writing cognitive load: Scale development and validation	5
Writing in L2 Greek: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and learning context on complexity, accuracy, and fluency	5
Editorial Board	5
Book review	5
Towards a reconciliatory approach to ungrading in writing classes: A response to Crusan	5
The value of models to support students' voice in middle school social studies argument writing	5

Editorial Board	5
Book Review	5
Co-regulation strategies and their associations with writing self-efficacy in a computer-mediated collaborative writing setting	4
June 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	4
Critical language awareness through advocacy: Disrupting deficit discourse through simulation in L2 writing teacher education	4
Book Review	4
The longitudinal development of second language writers’ metacognitive genre awareness	4
Book Review	4
Critical language awareness and cautious transnationalist work	3
Editorial Board	3
A bibliometric analysis on L2 writing in the first 20 years of the 21st century: Research impacts and research trends	3
Translanguaging pedagogy in EAP writing: A multilingual Qazaq instructor’s perspective	3
L2 writing anxiety, working memory, and task complexity in L2 written performance	3
Expertise in second language writing instruction	3
Book review	3
The use of spelling and reference tools in second language writing: Their impact on students’ writing performance and process	3
Relationship between second language English writing self-efficacy and achievement: A meta-regression analysis	3
Exploring complexity at the lexis-grammar interface: Diversity and sophistication of verb-argument structures in L2 Dutch writing	3
Secondary school English teachers’ application of artificial intelligence-guided chatbot in the provision of feedback on student writing: An activity theory perspective	3
The effects of AWE and peer feedback on cohesion and coherence in continuation writing	3
Future selves, enjoyment and anxiety as predictors of L2 writing achievement	3
Mapping the interactions between task sequencing, anxiety, and enjoyment in L2 writing development	2
Exploring the relationships among cognitive and linguistic resources, writing processes, and written products in second language writing	2
Book review	2
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	2
Book review	2
Source-based writing of the high- and low-proficiency adolescent writer in the high-school L2 classroom	2
March 2024 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	2
Theoretical perspectives and factors influencing machine translation use in L2 writing: A scoping review	2
Book review	2
Critical language awareness in L2 writing: Starting por la autorreflexión, 自我反省	2
AI tools as affordances and contradictions for EFL writers: Emic perspectives and L1 use as a resource	2
Book Review	2
Assessing syntactic and lexicogrammatical use in second language Mandarin writing samples	2
Book review	2
June 2025 JSLW annotated bibliography	2
Book review	1
Verb argument constructions in argumentative essays by college-level Asian learners of English: Exploring the effects of English proficiency, acquisition context, and topic	1
Incorporating digital multimodal composition in content teaching: A multimodal analysis of students’ legal popularization videos	1
Book Review	1
Editorial Board	1
Book Review	1
March 2025 JSLW Annotated Bibliography	1
Book review	1
Book Review	1
Exploring EFL learners’ engagement and draft quality in a multi-stage expository writing task using model texts as a feedback facilitator: A mixed-methods study	1
Writing teacher feedback literacy: Surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, values, and abilities	1
Western-trained Vietnamese teachers’ EFL writing instruction: A collaborative autoethnography of tensions, emotion, and agency from an activity theoretical perspective	1
From the Editors: June, 2022	1
Book review	1
Another contradiction in AI-assisted second language writing	1
Book review	1
Book Review	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Stories behind the scenes: L2 students’ cognitive processes of multimodal composing and traditional writing	1
Editorial	1
Writing performance and discourse organization in L2 Chinese: A longitudinal case study	1
Computer-mediated collaborative writing in L2 classrooms: A systematic review	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Lexical characteristics of young L2 English learners’ narrative writing at the start of formal instruction	1
Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing	1
Book review	1